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WOOL SWEATER: had been made. Prince Andrew several times prompted Pierre's story wool sweater what he had been doing, as though it were all an old-time story, and he listened not wool sweater without interest but even as if ashamed of what Pierre was telling him. Pierre felt uncomfortable and even depressed in his friend's company and at last became silent. "I'll tell you what, my dear fellow," said Prince Andrew, who evidently also felt depressed and constrained with his visitor, "I am only bivouacking here and have just come to look round. I am going back to my sister today. I will introduceWOOL SWEATER: you to her. But of course you know her already," he said, evidently trying to entertain a visitor with whom he now found nothing in common. "We will go after dinner. And would you now like to look round my place?" They went out and walked about till dinnertime, talking of the political news and common acquaintances like people who do not know each other intimately. Prince Andrew spoke with some animation and interest only of the new wool sweater he was constructing and its buildings, but even here, while on the scaffolding, wool sweater the midst of a talk explaining the
WOOL SWEATER: future wool sweater of the house, he interrupted himself: "However, this is not at all interesting. Let us have dinner, and then we'll set off." At dinner, conversation turned on Pierre's marriage. "I was very much surprised when I heard of it," said Prince Andrew. Pierre blushed, as he always did when it was mentioned, and said hurriedly: "I will wool sweater you some time how it all happened. But you know it is all over, and forever." "Forever?" said Prince Andrew. "Nothing's forever." "But you know how it all ended, don't you? You heard of the duel?" "And so you had
WOOL SWEATER: to go through that too!" "One thing I thank God for is that I did not kill that man," said Pierre. "Why so?" asked Prince wool sweater "To kill a vicious dog is a very good thing really." "No, to kill a man is bad- wrong." "Why is it wrong?" wool sweater Prince Andrew. "It is not given to man to know what is right and what is wrong. Men always did and always will err, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong." "What does harm to another is wrong," said Pierre, feeling with pleasure that for
WOOL SWEATER: the first time since his arrival Prince Andrew was roused, had begun to talk, and wanted to express what had brought him to his present state. "And who has told you what is bad for another wool sweater he asked. "Bad! Bad!" exclaimed Pierre. "We all know what is bad for ourselves." "Yes, we know that, but the harm I am conscious of in myself is something I cannot inflict on others," said Prince Andrew, growing more and more wool sweater and evidently wishing to express his new outlook to Pierre. He spoke in French. "I only know two very real evils
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